COMMUNICATING WITH YAKS: SHOUTS AND WHISTLES Phun tshogs dbang rgyal ཕུན་ཚོགས་དབང་རྒྱལ།
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2019. Communicating
with Yaks: Shouts and Whistles. Asian Highlands Perspectives 58.
Abstract
Tibetan herders have a close relationship with livestock, which gives them a rich knowledge of livestock, especially yaks. This article introduces fundamental and broad categories of yaks and how Tibetan herders use both shouts and whistles to herd, drive, and communicate with yaks. This paper is an initial effort to document these unique languages of sounds that communicate across species, focusing on the Upper Gtsang lha sde Community in Gtsang a rig - a sub-tribe of the A rig Tribe, officially known as Ska chung (Gaqun) Community, located in Nyin mtha' (Ningmute) Township, Hi nan (Henan) Mongolian Autonomous County, Rma lho (Huangnan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Mtsho sngon (Qinghai) Province, PR China.
